:00:00. > :00:00.Ashley Talbot died after being hit by a minibus outside school -
:00:00. > :00:10.a coroner says lessons must be learned.
:00:11. > :00:13.Health officials speak of a recruitment crisis in the NHS,
:00:14. > :00:18.costing health boards millions of pounds.
:00:19. > :00:21.And why Wales' biggest council plans to suspend the right to buy
:00:22. > :00:42.The coroner investigating the death of a 15-year-old boy who was run
:00:43. > :00:45.over in the grounds of his school said the inquest has identified
:00:46. > :00:49.Ashley Talbot was struck by a school minibus as he was leaving
:00:50. > :00:52.Maesteg Comprehensive in December 2014.
:00:53. > :00:55.The jury returned a verdict of accidental death and the coroner
:00:56. > :00:59.will now make a report about the design and construction of
:01:00. > :01:11.15-year-old Ashley was struck by a minibus
:01:12. > :01:16.Police say the driver, PE teacher Christopher Brooks,
:01:17. > :01:22.He was driving at 14 to 17 mph and would have had less
:01:23. > :01:29.But the inquest heard about wider safety concerns.
:01:30. > :01:33.One bus driver said this was an accident waiting to happen.
:01:34. > :01:37.Several children described near misses which they had witnessed.
:01:38. > :01:41.The coroner said the investigation had revealed matters of grave
:01:42. > :01:46.concern and he will now be preparing a report on the design, construction
:01:47. > :01:52.Reacting to the verdict, the solicitor of the family
:01:53. > :02:00.No child should die in a road traffic accident on school premises.
:02:01. > :02:04.In schools, more than anywhere else, the safety of children should be
:02:05. > :02:10.This school was constructed through a PFI initiative.
:02:11. > :02:14.It is clear from the evidence that we have heard in court
:02:15. > :02:19.that the staff of the school were never satisfied with the design
:02:20. > :02:25.And that they struggled, then, to provide a secure
:02:26. > :02:29.and safe environment, given the design restrictions
:02:30. > :02:33.Following the hearing, the local authority issued
:02:34. > :02:36.a statement saying improvements have already been carried out
:02:37. > :02:46.at the school and a review of safety in all schools in the county borough
:02:47. > :02:49.The chair of governors paid tribute to Ashley as a popular pupil
:02:50. > :02:51.and said the governors are satisfied the school is now safe.
:02:52. > :02:53.We complied with all the health and safety
:02:54. > :02:58.recommendations that were brought in following the terrible accident.
:02:59. > :03:04.We believe now that the school is certainly a very safe place.
:03:05. > :03:08.Ashley's mother has been too ill to attend the inquest.
:03:09. > :03:15.They have welcomed the ongoing health and safety investigation and
:03:16. > :03:21.They also plan to campaign for school safety in
:03:22. > :03:31.Failures to recruit doctors and nurses are costing Welsh health
:03:32. > :03:33.boards millions of pounds and today Assembly Members were told
:03:34. > :03:37.there's now a recruitment crisis in the Welsh NHS.
:03:38. > :03:40.In North Wales the amount of money being spent on agency staff this
:03:41. > :03:49.year matches the entire ?30,000 overspend of Betsi
:03:50. > :03:50.year matches the entire ?30,000 overspend of
:03:51. > :03:55.We are told our hospitals have rarely been busier,
:03:56. > :03:58.pressures rarely greater, the squeeze on cash rarely tighter.
:03:59. > :04:02.But at a time when the Welsh NHS needs every penny it can get,
:04:03. > :04:06.spending on agency staff to fill empty posts is spiralling.
:04:07. > :04:10.According to some critics, there is a recruitment crisis.
:04:11. > :04:16.In north Wales, as an example, there are 177 full-time nursing vacancies.
:04:17. > :04:20.There's a shortage of 79 health care assistants.
:04:21. > :04:23.Ward rosters are going only 85% filled.
:04:24. > :04:26.And that's despite a recruitment drive.
:04:27. > :04:30.We asked to be allowed into the hospital here in Bangor
:04:31. > :04:33.today to speak to doctors and nurses about recruitment, but that
:04:34. > :04:40.One, an experienced sister, who didn't want to be filmed,
:04:41. > :04:42.told me that recruitment problems were down to the
:04:43. > :04:48.Places like this are extremely tough to work in, she said,
:04:49. > :04:56.Outside our cities, most Welsh hospitals struggle for staff.
:04:57. > :04:58.Today at the Senate, Assembly Members were
:04:59. > :05:02.Why, for example, do many medical students leave
:05:03. > :05:08.We have recently run a survey of all of those trainees coming
:05:09. > :05:12.to interview with us to find out exactly what are those key factors.
:05:13. > :05:17.And the vast majority have indicated that it's important that they have
:05:18. > :05:20.got somewhere where their friends are, their family is and it's
:05:21. > :05:24.a geographical location that it is known to them.
:05:25. > :05:26.I was talking to a number of students thinking
:05:27. > :05:29.of going into medicine recently in my constituency.
:05:30. > :05:34.They were all young, single, you know, young men and women, 18,
:05:35. > :05:37.19-years-old, who couldn't wait to get out.
:05:38. > :05:40.And said, you know, they've spent their whole lives here,
:05:41. > :05:43.they wanted to go and see the big wide world.
:05:44. > :05:45.And the failure to recruit is costing money.
:05:46. > :05:48.This year, the Ysbyty Clwyd health board expects to be
:05:49. > :05:52.in the red to the tune of more than ?30 million.
:05:53. > :05:56.And that's similar to the amount it was spent on agency staff
:05:57. > :06:02.If you could fill posts, could you get rid of a big
:06:03. > :06:06.I think it would be a massive help if we could reduce the agency
:06:07. > :06:09.spend and we are working towards that every day.
:06:10. > :06:12.We have some rigorous plans in place to control
:06:13. > :06:15.the spend on agency staff, both from the medical point of view
:06:16. > :06:22.We need to recognise that there will always be a need
:06:23. > :06:27.in certain circumstances to employ agency clinical staff, to make sure
:06:28. > :06:34.A safe service, then, but also a cheaper service.
:06:35. > :06:37.This has now become a major challenge for the Welsh NHS.
:06:38. > :06:42.Meanwhile, the number of patients waiting more
:06:43. > :06:48.and Emergency departments in Wales has risen by a quarter.
:06:49. > :06:52.Just over 4,000 people spent 12 hours in A last month,
:06:53. > :06:59.The Welsh Government said the rise is "unacceptable" and pledged
:07:00. > :07:04.to work with NHS Wales "to achieve improvements for patients."
:07:05. > :07:07.A man from Tredegar has appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court
:07:08. > :07:11.accused of downloading so-called Islamic State manuals.
:07:12. > :07:14.23-year-old Nathan Saunders is charged with five counts
:07:15. > :07:18.of possessing a record likely to be useful to a person committing
:07:19. > :07:25.A woman from Swansea who claimed she'd been imprisoned
:07:26. > :07:29.in her father's flat in Saudi Arabia is still waiting for a face-to-face
:07:30. > :07:35.21-year-old Amina Al-Jeffrey said her father locked her up
:07:36. > :07:38.because "she kissed a guy", an allegation he denies.
:07:39. > :07:41.Last Summer, Mohammad Al-Jeffrey was ordered to facilitate his
:07:42. > :07:45.daughter's return to the UK, but she remains in Saudi Arabia.
:07:46. > :07:48.A High Court judge has revealed her lawyer has yet to be
:07:49. > :07:55.Tenants in Cardiff could become the latest in Wales to lose
:07:56. > :07:58.the right to buy their council houses as the authority aims
:07:59. > :08:01.to tackle the city's growing housing need.
:08:02. > :08:04.The Council's decision to suspend the Right to Buy policy for five
:08:05. > :08:07.years will need to be rubber-stamped by the Welsh Government who plan
:08:08. > :08:10.to introduce a law that would amount to a Wales-wide ban
:08:11. > :08:31.In March, they'll have been married 60 years.
:08:32. > :08:33.For almost 40 of them, they've lived in this former council
:08:34. > :08:43.When we came here it was nothing like it is now and then we were hit
:08:44. > :08:46.-- here about a month and decided we'll buy it.
:08:47. > :08:49.We feel proud that we both came from, I came from a council house
:08:50. > :08:52.in Ely, Harry's from the docks and we're out here
:08:53. > :09:01.So, I'm quite pleased with both of us.
:09:02. > :09:05.The Fords would have benefited from a discount of up to 50%
:09:06. > :09:08.when the policy was first introduced in the 1980s.
:09:09. > :09:13.These days, social housing tenants in Wales can get out of a maximum
:09:14. > :09:16.of ?8,000 knocked off the value of their property.
:09:17. > :09:21.Last year, 359 properties in Wales were bought under
:09:22. > :09:25.the Right to Buy scheme, out of a total of more than 200,000
:09:26. > :09:32.Had we not had the Right to Buy, we wouldn't have a waiting list
:09:33. > :09:39.today and people on the waiting list are in significant housing need.
:09:40. > :09:49.So what we want to be able to do, we want to protect a very important
:09:50. > :09:51.asset for families to come, now and into the future.
:09:52. > :09:53.Cardiff Council's requests will need to be accepted
:09:54. > :09:56.Anglesey, Carmarthenshire and Swansea have already been given
:09:57. > :09:59.permission to suspend the Right to Buy policy in their areas.
:10:00. > :10:04.But other applications are still being considered.
:10:05. > :10:10.However, next month, government ministers for proposing
:10:11. > :10:13.a new law in the assembly that would amount to a Wales-wide
:10:14. > :10:17.It would bring the curtain down on a flagship Thatcherite policy
:10:18. > :10:20.driven by her desire to create a nation of homeowners.
:10:21. > :10:23.This just deflects attention from the huge national need
:10:24. > :10:33.We should be proud of the Right to Buy and we should
:10:34. > :10:36.encourage its use in the future but we certainly need
:10:37. > :10:38.to build more homes, that's what the Welsh government
:10:39. > :10:41.We really do need investment in new homes.
:10:42. > :10:43.Housing associations are a big part of that and are committed
:10:44. > :10:46.to building social homes that are needed up and down Wales
:10:47. > :10:49.and the Right to Buy is one part of that picture.
:10:50. > :10:51.It stops us losing homes that we desperately need
:10:52. > :10:54.but actually the focus needs to be on building new homes.
:10:55. > :10:57.But as far as Shirley and Henry are concerned,
:10:58. > :11:03.it afforded them the opportunity to turn the house into a home.
:11:04. > :11:06.He's had an incredible week, but the dream is over
:11:07. > :11:12.The teenager from Ebbw Vale lost to world number four Judd Trump
:11:13. > :11:17.But while Jackson's Welsh Open is over, one Welshman
:11:18. > :11:19.remains in the tournament - Lee Walker beat Graeme Dott to make
:11:20. > :11:25.Let's see what the weather has in store.
:11:26. > :11:31.Derek's here and is it a little milder?
:11:32. > :11:41.We're little bit milder, yes. 10 Celsius this afternoon. And, daytime
:11:42. > :11:45.temperatures will continue to exceed the mid-February average over the
:11:46. > :11:52.next few days, typically ten to 12 Celsius. Tonight, some rain for
:11:53. > :11:55.parts of mid and North Wales. That will gradually ease and clear.
:11:56. > :12:01.Elsewhere it is looking dry. A few gaps in the cloud and a mild night.
:12:02. > :12:05.Generally dry tomorrow morning. A bit misty and places first thing. It
:12:06. > :12:11.should writing up in Monmouth, a little sunshine. Across the rest of
:12:12. > :12:16.the UK a warm front through England and Scotland will bring spots of
:12:17. > :12:20.drizzle. Some sunshine in Edinburgh and Newcastle. Many areas dry but
:12:21. > :12:25.some pockets of rain in the West later in the day. Temperatures on
:12:26. > :12:29.the mild side generally speaking. Nine in Glasgow, 12 Celsius in
:12:30. > :12:31.London. Close to home, dry and brighter in the north and east
:12:32. > :12:38.tomorrow afternoon but how will increase. Some rain spreading from
:12:39. > :12:40.the West and look at those temperatures, ten to 12 Celsius with
:12:41. > :12:45.a south-easterly breeze. Tomorrow night a bit damp in places,
:12:46. > :12:51.otherwise dry. Enough moisture for a few mist and fog patches to form.
:12:52. > :12:55.Against a mile. Mist and fog patches on Saturday will live. A lot of dry
:12:56. > :13:00.weather, fairly cloudy, with a few sunny intervals. However, a cold
:13:01. > :13:06.front will move through the day. It stays on the mild side on Sunday.
:13:07. > :13:10.Again a few spots of drizzle, otherwise mostly dry. Hopefully a
:13:11. > :13:15.little bit of sunshine. In the next week, half term, mild, breezy a
:13:16. > :13:18.little rain, it may turn colder later in the week with showers.
:13:19. > :13:20.We're back with updates from around 6.25am in the morning
:13:21. > :13:26.But that's Wales Today, from all of us on the programme, goodnight.